The victim of snow thread...

[Vish]

Exactly Vish. Everyone needs a f**king good red faced accident. Luckily I had all mine when I was 17.

Yup, I had a stupid small accident when I was 17 and one big non-fault when I was 18 and enough close calls after. All changed my driving approach for the better.

im a victim, curbs! wheels poking out the arch, im hoping the camber bolt came loose and its on positive camber

Hope its not too bad mate. I don't fancy risking my car today, don't know what nutters are out there either.

 

[Munson]

Yup, I had a stupid small accident when I was 17 and one big non-fault when I was 18 and enough close calls after.

I landed upside down in a field facing the way I came. Win

 

[Guppy]

Learning to drive ftw.

+1

Sorts the men from the boys!

 

[Vish]

I landed upside down in a field facing the way I came. Win

lol mine don't even come close to that! Thankfully!

 

[Munson]

lol mine don't even come close to that! Thankfully!

The second crash I was 18 and thought it was ok to touch the brakes when cornering in the wet.

Woops...wooooooops...woo00000psie...which way are we going...woaaaaah~~~~BANG!

 

[Vish]

The second crash I was 18 and thought it was ok to touch the brakes when cornering in the wet.

Woops...wooooooops...woo00000psie...which way are we going...woaaaaah~~~~BANG!

:S

Did you get the old slow motion happening too?

The last thing I saw before impact on my second crash was the driver looking towards me just before I t-boned straight into her.

Who does a f**king 3 point turn on a national limit road without checking your mirrors?!

 

[msisleman]

The 182 is impossible in the snow mate. Well my 182Cup is anyway. Wide summer tyres on a car than weighs nothing + always over-sensitive ABS = FAIL.

I've been driving in snow for decades without a problem or incident, until I got my 182 and now I never bother. Not worth sliding backwards down a hill while pulling away on 1% throttle in 3rd gear...

100% agree. It doesn't make you a crap driver if you can't get a 1*2 around snow like there's no snow there! You can't magically make grip appear....

This is my warm up for Finland for the next 3 weeks... snow tyres are a legality! :evil:

 

[Munson]

Did you get the old slow motion happening too?

No but the barrel roll into a field was slow motion. Man-crashes FTW. Nothing worse than pottering into a bollard like a girl.

 

[LFCJosh]

snow = drifting practice
handbrake.com

 

[Vish]

No but the barrel roll into a field was slow motion. Man-crashes FTW. Nothing worse than pottering into a bollard like a girl.

So true lol

 

[domjolly]

i went to go around a corner and ended up going straight forward and clumping the car very hard. no air bags came on which is good news lol....no knocking noises or anything just a massive gash missing on the lip of my front passenger alloy.

 

[fUbAr]

I made it to work, f**king ABS takes the piss. Anyone know which fuse it uses, because its being taken out for the trip home!?

 

[MistaT]

Just turn the ESP off, that disables the ABS, i did it last night and wouldn't recommend it, even though most of my previous cars have had no ABS, it's not a good recipe!

 

[fUbAr]

Just turn the ESP off, that disables the ABS

really? I beg to differ :S

Turning the ESP off does just that, turns the ESP off.

 

[MistaT]

Mine seems to disable the ABS too! As i was sliding down a hill with all 4 wheels locked solid and no ABS light or any intervention until i turned the ESP back on!

 

[msisleman]

really? I beg to differ :S

Turning the ESP off does just that, turns the ESP off.

ESP button doesn't turn ABS off. ABS can't be turned off without taking the fuse out. Its a legality to have ABS on cars made after a certain year in UK so they won't give you an option to turn it off!

 

[fUbAr]

ESP button doesn't turn ABS off. ABS can't be turned off without taking the fuse out. Its a legality to have ABS on cars made after a certain year in UK so they won't give you an option to turn it off!

Why are you quoting me... thats what I said.

 

[Tom]

DONT pull the abs fuse out. (gives you 50:50 split)

You need to disconnect a rear sensor to get the correct balance.

http://rs-team.org/entretien/entretien.php?p=135

 

[conneh]

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=393146

My first crash....

10mph + wall .. not good.

Cosmetically it dosn't look too bad, new bumper and bonnet etc.

However, for some reason the air bags thought they would deploy.

 

[DannagE]

lol conneh you noob

 

[Reyes]

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=393146

My first crash....

10mph + wall .. not good.

Cosmetically it dosn't look too bad, new bumper and bonnet etc.

However, for some reason the air bags thought they would deploy.

Yeah, that is bad. Wanna hug? x

 

[msisleman]

Why are you quoting me... thats what I said.

Chill out.

I quoted the wrong person and wished to expand on your correct statement.

 

[Reyes]

Awesome. I would like to too.

 

[koevoet]

Pirelli Snowsports and 182, go anywhere with common sense. At least that has been my experience using them for the past 3 years on mine,good all-round winter hi performance tyre,got up the hill to my house a couple of years ago with 3 inches of snow on the road no problemo! not being smug,just passing on experience.I dont use the Exalto's in the winter.Snowsports give better grip in low temps in general.

 

[fUbAr]

Chill out.

I quoted the wrong person and wished to expand on your correct statement.

im very chilled... and have been all day due to this weather

 

[Addz]

well i've just got in from work, over a hour to get 6 miles

got stuck on a hill for half a hour too! the Vee isnt a car suited for the snow i recon.....

 

[Phill1978]

i always think im gonna get some winter tyre/alloys but then again its usuaklly 2-4days of the year and its not like your gonna get up at 5 in the morning jack up the car in all the snow and change the wheels is it.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Can't believe how many other threads there are about crashing tonight! Feel for you all :dapprove:

 

[fearless]

I am in this club too,

360ed it on an ungritted country lane. passenger light cluster fu'cked, cracked wing and bumper, cracked grill and a small dent in boot i have no idea how i did. drives fine but rear passenger wheel bearing is a little noisy. busy day tomorrow.

 

[koevoet]

quote"i always think im gonna get some winter tyre/alloys but then again its usuaklly 2-4days of the year and its not like your gonna get up at 5 in the morning jack up the car in all the snow and change the wheels is it."


Dont change the tyres to suit mate,change in December / Jan then leave them on until April,they are performance tyres, so still able to get a lot out of the car,there is slightly more roll on the sidewall as it's softer than the exalto, but given that there is more wet weather grip and better grip in freezing temp's than a summer performance tyre it's not purely a snow tyre.rather suffer a bit more roll on thr road than roll off it.

 

[Brett]

Sorry to hear mate, at least it is only a wheel.

What is the best thing to do in a realy slow slide in the snow then? I just normally brake lightly, seems to help.

Obviously in a normal skid situation you wouldn't brake, you would use the throttle to try and get the fronts to grip again however in the snow there isnt any grip available atall.

 

[m4rkie23]

sorry to hear it mate.

 

[Mike_182]

No issues at all here in the Audi, although I've banned the other half from going to work in the GTI today.